The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-12-28

! CatiVeS.
WATERMAN of Hyde Park route agent on
the Portland & Ogdensburg, lon't like to dis
cuss the menagerie question: While his car
was coming from Lunenburg Che other day he
saw an unkempt native enter the baggage
car at East Concord Having a little spare
time, he left his mail-room and stepped into
! the baggage-car for some fun. Waterman
likes fun-provided it is on the right fellow.
| The native was not only unkempt, but his
countenance indicated that he was leaving
| East Concord for the first time in his life.
! While the route agent was filling his pipe
he winked to the baggage-master to take
note of the conversation, then sided up to
! the native and commenced: "Going to
| Johnsbury?" Var, thought | would"
d" Ever been to the city before?" " Never
have, stranger" " All! then you'll see the
| elephant to-day for the first time" The
stranger surveyed Waterman from head to
foot, studied him carefully, then straight
ened up and replied Wall, stranger, |
amt so particular about the elephant at
Johnsbury as long as can see a jnuine
monkey on the train" The baggage master
! had taken note and was snCkering behind
the trunks, while Waterman was making
his way into the mail-car-LyndOn Union.
In General.
Mr.. BLAINE has gone to Italy.
CONGRESS has adjourned until January t.
AUBERTIN, who shot NJ. Ferry, has gone
mad,
THERE are signs of another revolution in
! Hawaii.
JOSEF HoFMANNs Boston debut was a
great success.
THOMAS SEXTON is very ill with typhoid
! fever at Dublin.
MANY bears are being killed in the Cats
kills this winter.
The Austrian army is to be taught the
| Russian language.
IT is reported and denied that the czar
has again been SHOT at,
ADvIcEs from Zanzibar state that Stan
ley has reached Wadelia.
GOVERNOR BoDwELL of Maine was buried
amid imposing ceremonies.
BARACoA was swept by a huge wave and
many houses were destroyed,
THE National Wool-growers' Association
has issued ringing manifesto.
THE Protestant missionary workers i'll
Mexico are to hold an assembly.
A COMPLETE menagerie has been shipped
from London for Barnum & Bailey
THE thermometer stood 1870 degrees above
at Bahalayas, Ecuador, December |.
In accordance with the interstate law first
class fare to San Francisco is now So.
EX-SECRETARY MANNING's funeral was
attended by the president and cabinet.
THERE is a prospect of another serious
strike in the Pennsylvania coal region.
M1NNEAPoL1s mills have produced more
than 5000, 900 barrels of flour this year.
THE supreme court of Missouri declares
the Wood local option law constitutional.
WEEPING WATER, Nebraska town, was
almost wholly destroyed by fire last week.
A VIENNA dispatch intmates Austria s
willingness to sacrifice King Ferdinand to
Russia
FIRE at Hillsboro, Texas, destroyed the
National Bank and two stores. Damage
100000.
THE reports of great loss of life in Kansas
by the recent blizzard were greatly exag-
gerated.
PROFESSOR VIRcHow thinks the crown
prince will yet live to be emperor of
Germany.
EIGHT persons were frozen to death in
Carson county, Texas, during the recent
cold snap.
QUEEN VICTORIA has demonstrated with
the Prince of Wales because of his approval
of puglism.
The Great Eastern has been sold to a
metal firm for GIG, 100 and will be broken up
as old metal.
A YOUNG woman in New York has been
sentenced to Imprisonment for killing two
canarybirds.
The steamer San Vincente " was burned
near Golden Gate last week. Eleven of the
crew are missing.
TURKEY, fearing European complications,
is increasing her forces in Macedonia, on the
Roumelian frontier.
THE Pennsylvania railroad is to take the
savings of its employees who desire and pay
them four per cent interest.
HEAVY snow storms are prevailing through.
out Hungary and railway and Geographic
communication is interrupted.
THE sultan of Turkey is alarmed at the
war preparations going on about him and is
thinking of calling out an army.
THE thieves who stole 100000 worth OF
silk from a New York house by means of q
forged order have been captured.
THE poet Whittier has received over SOC
letters of cOngratulation on his eightietl
birthday from all over the world
JUDGE MCALLIsTER of Chicago has de
cided the ordinance prohibiting the sale OF
liquors to minors unconstitutional.
a LITTLE girl while making big snow-balls
by rolling them down hill was thrown by
one and killed at East Branch, n. Y.
THE president and secretary of the Con
tinental Life Insurance Company have beer
indicted by the grand jury at Hartford.
LORD SALISBURY has publicly stated tina
the adoption by England Of protection
would involve the country in civil war.
THE latest reports indicate that the pros
pect of war in Europe next spring is seri
1 ously entertained at Berlin and Vienna
THE Boston branch of the National Leagu,
I of Colored Men has adopted resolution OPP
posing the confirmation of Secretary Lamar
=, The late Stephen NJ. Buckingham o
Poughkeepsie left $4,000 by will for re
lgious, educational and charitable purposes
THE heaviest storm in twenty years Wis
= tied the Haytian coast on the 9th instant
y A number of wrecks, with loss of life, ar
u, reported.
! ARCHBISHOP FABRE of Montreal ha
= issued pastoral letter Directing to the pre-
+ posed taxation of church property in tn
. Dominion.
:. NEARLY 81, 600, 600 have been embezzled b.
persons who have fled to CanaC.a, and ther
Il is a petition for an extradition treaty t
e include embezZers.
a The bodies of fifteen murdered men hav
a been found in the cabin in No Man
Il Land" Indian Territory, formerly occupie
n by family named Kelly.
u The Duke of Norfolk has quilted Rom
{ rather unceremoniously because the Pop
refused to interfere with the Irish clergy il
II their relations to the league.
THE ship Alfred Watts" which sale
u for Hiogo, Japan, October from New York
u has gone down with twenty-siX men, two {
l. the crew having been rescued.
Fl A NEGRO near Cincinnati put some dyni
a mite cartridges in his oven to thaw. TIL
4, house was destroyed, two of his childre
y killed and hp and his wife badly iuiure1